[LAFONT, Joseph de.]

Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...

Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...

Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...

£175

MUSGRAVE, Samuel.

Two Dissertations. I. On the Graecian...

London, printed by J. Nichols, 1782.

First edition of this work by the classical...

£450

PIGHIUS, Stephanus Vinandus.

Themis dea, seu de lege divina … Mythologia...

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1568.

First edition of Pighius’s two treatises...

£450

PONTOPPIDAN, Erich.

The Natural History of Norway containing...

London, for A. Linde, 1755.

First English edition, a nice copy likely...

£1250

RANK, Otto.

Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden. Versuch...

Leipzig and Vienna, Franz Deuticke, 1909.

First edition of this psychoanalytical...

£100

SHEPHERD, Richard Herne.

No. I. Studies of Sensation and Event by...

London, Pickering & Co … 1878.

An interesting collection of rare tracts,...

£950

SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.

Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος....

Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:)...

A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek...

£1850

SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

£1000

[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]

Démophon.

[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]

A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann...

£5250

ZANCHI, Basilio.

Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum...

Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s...

£375

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

£8000

EURIPIDES; SOPHOCLES; AESCHYLUS.

Tragoediae selectae Aeschyli, Sophoclis,...

[Geneva,] Henri Estienne, 1567.

Handsome pocket-sized Estienne edition...

£1850

PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.

An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...

London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.

Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...

£950

ANNE, Queen.

Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham...

27 January 1708/9.

An attractive document, bringing together...

£1750

[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

£1500

[BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.]

AUCHER, Paschal. A Grammar Armenian and...

Venice, at the Press of the Armenian Academy,...

First edition, scarce, of Byron’s Armenian...

£3250

[COLVIL, Samuel.]

‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.

1670s?

A fine early manuscript of the second part...

£1250

HARRIS, James.

Three Treatises the first concerning Art...

London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...

£600

HIPPOCRATES.

The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

First edition of this translation of the...

£850

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The most remarkable Year in the Life of...

London, Richard Phillips, 1802.

First edition in English of Kotzebue’s...

£500